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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

ENTERTAINING IDEAS

New York Times, Sunday, August 5, 1979

14-Across : Old Irish alphabet

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 21, Columns: 21, Words: 140, Blocks: 74, Avg Word Len: 5.24, Missing: { J Q Z }, Scrabble score: 582 (avg 1.59)
Open Squares: 127, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 7, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 22
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1979, The New York TimesNo. 10,862
Across
1
Style : MODE
5
Hokum : BLAH
9
Sell hot tickets : SCALP
14
Old Irish alphabet : OGHAM
19
Uzbek's irrigation source : ARAL
20
He "planted" a handkerchief : IAGO
21
"Santa ___," Italian song : LUCIA
22
Apollo 14 astronaut : ROOSA
23
Fan of Maria and Maximilian : SCHELLCOLLECTOR
26
Literary archipelago : GULAG
27
Rescued from ruin : SALVAGED
28
Poet Conrad : AIKEN
29
Still : CALM
30
Houdini's forte : ESCAPE
31
"Hernani" playwright : HUGO
32
"Saturday night special" : HANDGUN
35
Blind impulse : ATE
36
Sonny, once : CHERHOLDER
40
Lose one's cool : RAVE
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Type of cement : SOREL
43
Coat : HIDE
44
Entitled to putt first : AWAY
45
Swedish port : UMEA
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Item for Muffet : CURD
47
Tune once sung by Anna May : WONGNUMBER
50
Lap, perhaps : SEAT
51
Panay people : ATI
52
"De Profundis" author : WILDE
53
Kingdom loser : NAIL
54
Dash, in radio code : DAH
56
Trail Blazers' league : NBA
57
"You're ___ Need" : ALLI
58
Kind of flick : ADULT
59
All thumbs : INEPT
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Close : TIGHTLY
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Jacques of songdom : FRERE
65
Kind of play : PASSION
67
Little casino, if a spade : DEUCE
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Wretched : SORRY
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Histrio's need : ROLE
70
High's partner : DRY
71
Shrink : SHY
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Rocky eminence : CRAG
73
Drain : SEWER
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Colloid : GEL
75
Dilpomacy's foundation : TACT
78
Premiere for James : CAANOPENER
80
Thin; watery: Comb. form : SERO
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Hamitic language : AGAO
82
Kind of food or brother : SOUL
83
Arabian V.I.P. : EMIR
84
Victorian blackout : SWOON
85
Brake : FERN
86
One-nighters for Jo Anne : WORLEYGIGS
89
Wine: Comb. form : OEN
90
Flight feather : TERTIAL
92
Former French coins : SOLS
93
Casual wear : SLACKS
96
"Sunnybrook," e.g. : FARM
97
Griddle cake : LATKE
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Tall one's need : HEADROOM
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"Lizzie Borden took ___ ... " : ANAXE
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Clip of Maisie at the beach : SOTHERNEXPOSURE
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Carl or Mark Van ___ : DOREN
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Russian co-op : ARTEL
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Sights at Aosta : ALPI
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German author of ghost stories : APEL
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Pyknic : OBESE
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They make a mesh : GEARS
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Trudge : PLOD
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River duck : TEAL
Down
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Billiards shot : MASSE
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Killer whales : ORCAS
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Stage presence, to Arlene : DAHLCARRIAGE
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Noble : ELEVATED
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Ship's area : BILGE
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Valenciennes : LACE
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"How like ___ ... ": Hamlet : AGOD
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Relative of a vac. : HOL
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Pung : SLEIGH
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Bananas : CUCKOO
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Part of a Racine work : ACTE
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Simba : LION
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Watson's 3, 4 or 5 : PAR
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Harmonium : ORGAN
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Advance prints of Elliott's scenes : GOULDRUSHES
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Celeste's acting career : HOLMGAME
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Crazy ___ loon : ASA
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Slick, with or without pix : MAG
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Revers : LAPEL
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Bacall : LAUREN
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Grant : CARY
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Lessen a risk : HEDGE
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Get wind of : HEAR
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Eye part : UVEA
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Precise : NEAT
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Columnist Knickerbocker : CHOLLY
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India's official language : HINDI
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Changeable : LABILE
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Resided : DWELT
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Inadequate : SCANT
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Offer top dollar : OUTBID
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Mount ___, in N.H. : WILLEY
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Experience : UNDERGO
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Baseball announcer Wills : MAURY
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Vigil : WATCH
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Ringer of a sort : DIALER
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Goose genus : ANSER
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Scottish island : ARRAN
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Walter's transportation : PIDGEONCOUPE
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"Moment-of-truth" man : TORERO
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Bite on director John's earnings : HUSTONTAXES
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Last words of Pledge of Allegiance : FORALL
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Mala or Stefanie : POWERS
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Chute material : NYLON
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Scottie's battle memento : SCAUR
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Make a gaffe at bridge : RENIG
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Certain trailers, for short : SEMIS
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Weightiest U.S. President : TAFT
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Pulitzer Prize novelist: 1958 : AGEE
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Material for Vikki's songs : CARRFARE
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Like some cats : COOL
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Westbrook : PEGLER
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Curses : SWEARSAT
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Took a dip : SWAM
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Former Italian coin : SOLDO
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O.T. book : ESTHER
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Hayseeds : YOKELS
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Dunne : IRENE
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Toothsome : SAPID
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Oriental peninsula : KOREA
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Detect, in a way : SMELL
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Erudition : LORE
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Sweetsop : ATTA
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Perdition : HELL
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Olympic Stadium athlete : EXPO
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Foofaraw : ADO
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British swell : NOB
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Decline : SAG
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Baize feature : NAP

Answer summary:
15 unique to this puzzle, 7 debuted here and reused later, 7 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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